2 Helicopters and 50 APCS

Next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin will land in Israel for an historic visit, while Russian involvement in the region, which has been criticized many times by Israel, continues at full speed. In the...

“They Told Us to Aim at the Legs”

"They trained us to hit only the lower extremities," said a soldier from the IDF's sniper unit, who said he was supposed to be part of a special sniper force that the IDF has...

Gush Katif

As in daring situation assessments in distant places, the IDF and the police have obtained the floor plans of all the homes in the communities marked for evacuation in order to use them to...

Israel Fears Regional War in 2006

WASHINGTON -- Israel has relayed its concern to the United States of the rising prospect of a Middle East war in 2006. U.S. officials said Israel has determined that the expected U.S. withdrawal from...

Palestinians say Abbas Wrong –

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation's Voice of Israel Radio Arab Affairs Correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported this afternoon that PA head Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a meeting with Israeli reporters that the PA has collected all...

Israeli City Prepares for Missile Attacks

TEL AVIV -- Israel's military has been bracing for Palestinian missile attacks on a major southern city. Israeli officials said the military has assessed that Palestinian insurgents would launch missile strikes on Ashkelon, north...

“Calm” on Verge of Explosion

The quiet along the border with Egypt was violated yesterday once again. An IDF NCO who serves with the Engineering Corps was severely injured and an Israeli civilian was moderately injured yesterday afternoon from...

No Preparedness for Any Pullout

"Anyone who dreams that within three months we will be able to propose housing solutions for thousand of evacuees, will be proven wrong. We have been caught with our pants down," say Housing Ministry...

Peres’s Peace Technology Fund Folds

www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=905642 The Yediot Ahronot Hebrew daily reports that the Peace Technology investment fund, founded to invest in projects in the Palestinian Authority (PA) has discontinued its activity. The Shalom fund was founded six years ago,...

Knesset Committee Seeks Further Information About Peres’s Palestinian Authority Investments

JERUSALEM - The ethics committee of Israel's Parliament, or Knesset, requested last month that a private investigative group provide more information about accusations of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres's involvement in a technology fund...